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Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions

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Gibbs, Ryan
Gokcekus, Omer
Tower, Edward

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For the steel import quota bill of 1999, our answer to the question posed in the title is that each word in the Congressional Record costs $39 in campaign contributions from the steel industry. Consequently, our answer is "Yes."

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Paper provided by Duke University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 02-31.

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Date of creation: 2002
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